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Renaissance Flashcards

1
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Who wrote the Decameron?

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Boccaccio

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2
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Who wrote the Prince?

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Machiavelli

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3
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What were the basic years of the Renaissance?

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14th - 16th century

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4
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What did Durer do?

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He mixed the Northern and Southern Renaissance and created Chad Jesus

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5
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Who commissioned the Sistine Chapel?

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Pope Julius II

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Who wrote Utopia?

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Thomas More

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7
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What did Pico della Mirandola believe?

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Man is between beast and angels

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8
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What did Savonarola do?

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Took over Florence from the Medicis

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9
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What did Erasmus write?

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Praise of Folly

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10
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What did Lorenzo Valla disprove of?

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Donation of Constantine

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11
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Who wrote Inferno?

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Dante

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12
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What is Virtu?

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The ability of the leader

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13
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What countries fought over Italy ?

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France and Spain

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14
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What skill did Lorenzo Valla have to contradict the Donation of Costantine?

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He could analyze the recent and ancient Greek texts to see which were official for use of the church.

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15
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Who wrote the Courtier?

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Baldassare Castiligone

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16
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What did Machiovelli’s book The Prince talk about?

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How to have the most power as a ruler; fear over love

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17
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What is “naturalism?”

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A style that portrayed the world as it was, not symbolic figures

18
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Who painted The School of Athens?

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Raphael

19
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Why did Henry VII become head of the church of England?

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He wanted more power as king, and he also wanted to divorce his first wife.

20
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What act made it illegal to refuse to recognize the church of England as the official state church?

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Treason Act

21
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Elizabeth I supported which religion?

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The church of England (Anglican)

22
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What was the Act of Uniformity?

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Citizens must attend a church service once a week or pay a fine

23
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What was the Concordat of Bologna?

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An agreement between Francis I and Pope Leo 10th: the church had the right to collect income from the French catholic church, and Francis had the right to appoint church officials.

24
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What was the Peace of Augsburg?

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Gave individual rulers in the Holy Roman empire the right to decide whether the subjects would be Catholic or Lutheran

25
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Who was the Fugger family?

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Powerful family in Augsburg, Germany, bankers in trade, had lots of power similar to the Medicis

26
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What did Jean Bodin believe?

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He believed the state should be ruled by the monarch and divine right

27
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What is Lorenzo Medici known for?

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Being a large patron of the arts

28
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What was the Peace of Lodi?

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resulted in a balance of power and peace between Milan, Florence, and
Naples that lasted until the French invasions of the 1490s

29
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What did Charles V do?

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Sacked Rome

30
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Who was the first to use the term “humanism?”

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Leonardo Bruni

31
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What did PIco de Mirandola write?

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Oration on the Dignity of Man

32
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Who sculpted the bronze doors of the Florentine Baptistery?

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Ghiberti

33
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“___ layed the egg that Luther hatched”

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Erasmus

34
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Alofini and his wife was painted by…

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Jan Van Eyck

35
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What did Christine de PIsan write?

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The city of ladies

36
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Isabella d’Este

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“first lady of the renaissance”, set an example for breaking away from traditional womanly standards

37
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What is a commune?

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sworn associations of free men in Italian cities led by merchant guilds

38
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What was the condttierei?

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Military leaders hired to maintain order and power in cities

39
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Who started the “bonfire of vanities?”

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Savonarola

40
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Who’s lectures became known as the Platonic Academy?

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Marcilio Fincino

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